On April 5, President Sadyr Japarov announced that awareness efforts were being carried out targeting Muslim women who wear the niqab and burqa, stressing that Muslim women who wear Islamic dress should not cover their faces. According to him, the inclusion of this provision in the law was based on a decision by the Council of Scholars.

The draft law on “Freedom of Religion and Religious Organizations” proposed by the Kyrgyz government and submitted for public discussion has reportedly been submitted to the Jogorku Kenesh (Kyrgyz parliament)....

News has spread in Kyrgyzstan about the replacement of the national flags of Kyrgyzstan, hung on the buildings of Shamsiev and Atabekov secondary schools in the Suzak district...

President Sadyr Japarov amended laws on “underground natural resources” and “biosphere areas” in which geological research and research work in biosphere areas, geological exploration of earth resources...